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Baseball had its first appearance at the 1912 Summer Olympics as an exhibition sport. A game was played between the United States, the nation where the game was developed, and Sweden, the host nation. The game was held on 17 July1912 in Stockholm. A view of the playing field at Busch Stadium in Saint Louis, Missouri. ... The Games of the V Olympiad were held in 1912 in Sweden. ... The United States of America — also referred to as the United States, the U.S.A., the U.S., America, the States, or (archaically) Columbia—is a federal republic of 50 states located primarily in central North America (with the exception of two states: Alaska and Hawaii). ... The Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish: Konungariket Sverige listen) is a Nordic country in Scandinavia, in Northern Europe. ... July 17 is the 198th day (199th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 167 days remaining. ... 1912 is a leap year starting on Monday. ... Note: This page contains IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. ...
The Americans were represented by various members of the American Olympic delegation, while the Swedish team was the Vesterås Baseball Club, which had been formed in 1910 as the first baseball club in Sweden. Four of the Americans played for Sweden, as the Swedes had no pitchers or catchers up to the task. 1910 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... The position of the catcher Catcher is a position played in baseball. ...
Six innings were played, with the Americans not batting in the sixth and allowing the Swedes to have six outs in their half of the inning.
Athens was chosen as the host city in 1997, after surprisingly losing the bid to organize the 1996SummerOlympics, the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the modern Olympic Games.
Since the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France it has been the tradition to have a mascot for the games and this year the official mascots are sister and brother, Athena and Phevos, named after the goddess of wisdom, strategy and war and the god of light and music, respectively.
An emotional high point of the parade was the entrance of the delegation from Afghanistan which had been absent from the Olympics, and had female competitors for the first time.
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